Is The Boston Tea Party The Same As The American Revolutionary War

The Boston Tea Party was a tax protest. Complaints over taxes were one of the primary things that led up to the war. The legislature of the Massachusetts Colony kept refusing to vote taxes to pay for the upkeep of their local government, so the Governor had to resort to increasing the types of taxes that were under his direct authority without needing a vote in the legislature. One of those types of taxes was a Stamp Duty, (A type of sales tax) which he imposed on Tea. Since tea was already very expensive (Another way he'd raised money was by selling a monopoly right to sell tea) this really annoyed the tea drinkers. Since tea was a luxury, this meant he ticked off rich people, who had the education and resources to do something about it. That 'something' was boarding a ship in Boston harbor and throwing overboard a cargo of tea that belonged to political allies of the Governor - the "Boston Tea Party" The leader of the protest was John Hancock, who was a very active tea smuggler at the time. The legal tea that they dumped was for sale in Boston cheaper than Hancocks smuggled tea, which was costing him money. For this reason, even many leaders of the colonial rebellion condemned this dumping of private property. Ben Franklin, for one, was so angered that he offered to repay the owners out of his own pocket. They did this dressed as Indians so that the sheriffs - who were friends of theirs - could say "We don't know who did it" Richard